Reviewing the options below, can you speak to what solutions your own organization or the organizations that you work with in the Global South use to address these needs? Are there solutions that are particularly well-suited that we should be looking into? Are there solutions that we should avoid? And, if so, why?
To date, Beautiful Trouble has published a "full edition" in English, and a "pocket edition" in English. The Beautiful Trouble editorial collective and our publisher have worked with activists groups and regional publishers publish editions in Spanish, Portugese, and more.
We have not yet, however, endeavoured to make those translations avaialble on the Beautiful Trouble web site. The Beautiful Rising project requires that the core content be avaialbe in several languages.
Specifically, the knowledge platform will be developed to be multi-lingual, both the content and the user interface, meaning that it can accept submissions and display content in multiple languages.
The minimum requirements for the project's needs are:
- To make it possible for content in languages other than English to be submitted to the knowledge platform, and -- in turn -- for those alternative-language version of the content to be made available to all access points into the platform.
- Provide translators with the finalized "core" content and a means to submit back translations
This will require a fair bit of architectural planning to accommodate, but there is significant “prior art” on how to accomplish this technically, and “internationalization” is a well-understood requirement of most contemporary software, frameworks, and platforms.
The "would be nice" requirements are:
- A way to accept translations through a variety of channels
- A way to accept translations from a variety of individuals, not just our core translation team
- A way to track changes to translated content, and see a history of the translation
The Transifex localization platform makes it easy to collect, translate and deliver digital content, web and mobile apps in multiple languages. https://www.transifex.com
- Used by organizations that we think highly of 👍
Who to talk to:
- @auremoser at Ushahidi ❓
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- Looks like it's relatively plug-and-play (JavaScript) 👍
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